Crónica particular del Cid

All three printings coincided with formal requests to have the Cid canonized as a saint.

[3] The texts of two epitaphs, one in Latin and another of epic character in Spanish, are included.

[1] The Crónica particular is the earliest source to specify the day of the Cid's death as 10 July, although it gets the year wrong (1098 rather than 1099).

[4] In its emphases, the Crónica takes the form of a military treatise imbued with hagiographic overtones by the abbot.

The preparation of the 1512 edition may have been inspired by the visit of Prince Ferdinand to the monastery and intended for his moral and knightly education.